Topics of interest

The topics of interest for the workshop session include but are not limited to:

Infrastructure for the domain: building, adapting and availability of linguistic resources, data sets and tools

Methods and protocols for data collection

Acquisition and combination of novel data samples; including techniques for continuous streaming, monitoring, aggregation and analysis of health and activity data

Guidelines, annotation schemas, annotation tools

Addressing the challenges of representation, including dealing with data sparsity and dimensionality issues, feature combination from different sources and modalities

Domain adaptation of NLP tools

Acoustic/phonetic/phonologic, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic/discourse analysis of data; including modeling of perception (e.g. eye-movement measures of reading) and production processes (e.g. recording of the writing process by means of digital pens, keystroke logging etc.); use of gestures accompanying speech and non-linguistic behavior

Use of wearable, vision, and ambient sensors or their fusion for detection of cognitive disabilities or decline